Rice Plant
The grain stuck in your cleat had a former life. In that life it was a rice plant. It was a happy little rice plant, minding its own business, when it was yanked up, cleaned, and put in a bag for people to buy and cook and eat. That was so long ago. Now all that's left is this sad loose grain in the bottom of your shoe.
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いね, いな
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The grain of rice thinks about its former life as a rice plant and, like you, mutters "いね." What's that, little rice grain? Are you trying to say life was good?